European Perspectives on Transition

Introduction: Transition: Conceptual and Comparative History of an Axial Political and Social Concept

Pablo Sanchez Leon and Agustin Cosovschi



Chapter 1. Between Civil War and Revolution: The Concept of Transition in Spain and Portugal to the Twenty-First Century

Pablo Sanchez Leon



Chapter 2. The Engineering of a Transition to Democracy in Portugal

Rita Luis



Chapter 3. The Languages of Transition in the Soviet Republics: Interpreting Perestroikain Estonia and Lithuania in 1985-89

Juhan Saharov and Justinas Dementavicius



Chapter 4. From Peaceful Revolution to the Search for Unity: Semantics of Transition in Germany since 1989

Benno Nietzel and Marcus Boeick



Chapter 5. All Possible Futures: Social Sciences Thinking about Transition in Serbia and Croatia during the 1990s

Agustin Cosovschi



Chapter 6. The Semantics of the Transition to Democracy in Greece and Spain

Magda Fityli



Chapter 7. Legal Doctrine and Liberal Pedagogy. The Concept of "Transition" and Polish Lawyers

Michal Stambulski and Jakub Szumski



Chapter 8. Permanent Transition in Hungary

Adam Fabry and Zoltan Pogatsa



Concluding Remarks: A Common Semantic Framework for Transitions with Diverse National Conjugations in Southern and Central-Eastern Europe

Pablo Sanchez Leon and Agustin Cosovschi



Afterword: Time and Narrativity in "Transition": An Afterword

Augusta Dimou